In How a Public Safety Leader Beat Addiction with CAPT Henry "Hank" Smith | KEV Talks #8, my good friend Henry “Hank” Smith and I catch up a bit, share his background in the U.S. Military and Public Safety, then get into the well known but often overlooked issued - substance abuse in Public Safety.

Key timestamps:

• 0:00 Reunited…and it feels so good
• 01:48 Hank’s story begins
• 12:26 First cardiac arrest call
• 19:50 Hanks struggles with alcohol
• 28:35 Where there’s smoke
• 38:37 Putting the article together
• 50:00 Looking inward
• 01:05:00 Public Safety Progress
• 01:11:55 Know you’re not alone

*To contact Hank and learn more about him or book time with him to share the Substance Abuse in Public Safety presentation contact him at [email protected] or on Instagram @henry.smith.804

**Read Hank's article a thttps://cdn.ymaws.com/fbileeda.org/resource/resmgr/FBI-LEEDA_MagazineQ2_Summer2.pdf (pgs. 11-2)